Low Open-Truss Beams (Mantel-Beams)

The known examples are listed of open trusses in medieval halls which carry beams at 5–7ft above the floor, in both cruck and box-frame structures. After considering possible uses for these beams, the preferred suggestion is that they carried curtains as removable room-dividers and draught screens, and the term low open-truss beam is proposed in preference to mantel-beam. The very wide distribution of closely similar examples can only be explained by the migration of individual carpenters. These structures provide the first direct evidence for the involvement of such migrations in the spread of building traditions at the vernacular level

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  N W Alcock, Roger Buckley et al.•Medieval Archaeology•1987

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  N W Alcock, Michael Laithwaite•Medieval Archaeology•1973

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